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List YouTube video categories
Use the returned category id as category_id when creating an export. The connected channel’s region determines which categories are available. The optional language query parameter is only used as a fallback if the channel has no region.

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <api_key>, where <api_key> is your API Key. The token in the sample code is referring to this api_key as well.

Query Parameters

language
string

Interface language code used to infer a region only when the connected channel has no region. For example, en maps to US and ja maps to JP; unrecognized values fall back to US.

Response

Assignable categories for the channel region

region
string
required

Region used to fetch categories.

categories
object[]
required

Only categories assignable to a YouTube video are returned.

Last modified on September 22, 2026